The Rainbow Bridge
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   July 1979
Pune, India
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    Nilima means blueness. Blueness is a symbol
    for depth.

    The sky appears blue -- it only appears blue, it
    is not blue; it has no color.

    It appears blue because of infinite depth. That
    infinite depth creates the color blue. No other
    color represents depth as deeply as blue. That's
    why wherever the river is deep the water looks
    blue. Water has no color; if it is shallow it is not
    blue, but if it is deep it is blue.

    In the inner world also the symbol is applicable.
    When you look inside you will find infinite
    blueness, a new sky opening up with as many
    stars as outside, with as many suns and moons
    as outside. The mystics say that the outer sky is
    nothing compared to the inner: the inner is
    vaster, the inner is far more beautiful,
    tremendously so. And it is so -- I am a witness to
    it.

    Meditation is the way to go into that depth of
    your own interiority. And when you become
    silent, again you will feel a blueness vibrating
    inside you. Just as depth has the color of blue,
    silence also has the color of blue. It is soothing
    -- the very color of blue is soothing -- soothing
    to the eyes, soothing to the body, soothing to
    the being itself. With silence, the very word, you
    are reminded of something blue.

    And it also happens when you become inwardly
    alert, aware, that you start seeing a kind of blue
    flame between your two eyes; at the center of
    the third eye a blue flame is seen. That flame
    arises only when awareness deepens, when
    silence becomes natural.

    That's why Buddha is represented seated on a
    blue lotus, and Krishna is represented as blue
    colored.

    You cannot find anybody of blue color; there is
    no blue race in the world! Krishna cannot be
    historically really blue, unless he was suffering
    from blood disease or something. But he is
    represented as blue because of these three
    reasons: he has seen the inner sky in its totality;
    he has become utterly silent and has seen
    another aspect of blueness; and he has become
    fully aware, a Buddha. He has seen the blue
    light of his own being. These are the three faces
    of blueness.

    Hence I am keeping your name, not changing it.
    It is a beautiful name. Explore its meaning: not
    literally, not verbally, not intellectually, but
    existentially...

                                           – Osho
                          The Rainbow Bridge, ch. 1